Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Asobi Seksu and Bell at the Independent by Moses Namkung Comedic Bay Area-specific commentary at the Independent on Friday night: "San Francisco!", Bell lead singer Olga Bell said, "You guys have hot buns and quads!"... [one song later] "Is there
Arts & Entertainment SF Sketchfest Closing Show: Bingo Grand Prize, Back-Cracking SF Sketchfest's closing show at Cobb's on Saturday night was an interesting night of comedy and Bingo, topped off with comedian-donated prizes and hosted by Bobby Tisdale. The grand prize was a good
Arts & Entertainment Haiku Giveaway: Never Not Funny featuring Jon Hamm OK. Put on your tinfoil thinking caps for this one, kids. We're giving away a pair of tickets for SF Sketchfest's "Never Not Funny" 2 p.m. show on Saturday at Cobb's Comedy
Arts & Entertainment SF Sketchfest Review: The Hills: A Staged Reading + Invite Them Up SF Sketchfest presented two shows with great line-ups at Cobb's on Saturday night, which proved to be a double-double dose of Robs (Riggle and Huebel). "The Hills: A Staged Reading," featured Janine Garofalo
Arts & Entertainment SF Sketchfest Giveaway: Invite Them Up The fine folks at SF Sketchfest are offering another great giveaway -- a pair of tickets to tonight and tomorrow night's showing of "Invite Them Up." New York comics Eugene Mirman and Bobby
Arts & Entertainment Sketchfest Giveaway: Win Tix to "Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words" Tonight Write a haiku using the words "own" and "words," and be eligible to win a pair of tickets to tonight's 7 p.m. or 9 p.m. showings of Sketchfest's "Celebrity Autobiography: In
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: One of the greatest human beings on Earth, Patton Oswalt, will delight the drunken masses at Cobb's Comedy Club tonight. Although he's much admired by the McSweeney's set -- he cut his
Arts & Entertainment Go See Him: Doug Benson Info: Tickets are $16 (with a two-drink minimum), doors open at 7 p.m.; Punchline (444 Battery). Yay!
misc Interview: Joe Rogan Joe Rogan, yes he of the chameleonic career changes, is performing at the Fillmore this Friday night. We know you’ve got a lot of options this weekend, but given the promises Joe
SF News Update: Dolores Aguilar Obit Real After some debate on the authenticity of Dolores Aguilar's obit in the Vallejo Times-Herald, which if you recall was shockingly brutal, we got to the bottom of it all. Turns out Aguilar's obit
misc R.I.P., <del>Bitch</del> Dolores Aguilar Warms the heart, doesn't it? Above obit found in the Times-Herald Napa/Sonoma. Oh, and be sure to read the guestbook here. (Thanks Jameth!) UPDATE I: Cruel obit page pulled late Sunday afternoon.
misc Boxed In: A Parking Panorama Then, a couple of weeks ago, just before the recent holiday weekend, we witnessed the drivers of two boxed-in cars in a row compete to see who could get their cars the hell
misc Behold Dimitri the Stud/Stalker Sent to some bodyshot-partying Marina chick, Dimitri's desperate voicemails had us at "Greek," and "maybe you were abused in childhood." Swoon. (Update: here's an article about said stalker Dimitri, via our swell sister
misc Interview: Paul Mecurio What's your take on the comedy scene in the Bay Area? I had a great time when I performed there with Brian Regan. Crowds were cool, a nice vibe to the place. People
Arts & Entertainment SPF7 Sketch Comedy at The Dark Room This Weekend We are excited to see our old instructors and the rest of local comedy troupe SPF7 fall on their faces shine at The Dark Room this weekend during the premiere of their sketch
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight *COMEDY/THEATER: Rejoice, mama's boys of San Francisco. According to SF Weekly, "Judy Gold and award-winning playwright Kate Moira Ryan traveled around the U.S. for five years, interviewing over 50 Jewish women
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight DISCUSSION/THEATER: Before Michael Bennett and Bob Fosse rose to fame with shocking original choreography, directorial genius, and having a penchent for abusing dancers, we had Jerome Robbins. The mastermind of steps behind
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: As we already mentioned, Why? is performing this evening along with Dose One, Cryptacize, DJ Odd Nosdam, DJ Jel. *THEATER: Eve Ensler's Obie Award-winning play the Vagina Monologues -- featuring such monologues
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight *MUSIC: Hotel Utah launches a brand spanking new party, YEAR. The night is being labeled as an "innovative branded concept," hosted by KUSF radio personality and creative director for the Mill Valley Film
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight *MUSIC: Kelley Stoltz, Grand Archives, the Morning Benders, and le Weather Underground sing some songs for you over at the Independent. (Part of Noise Pop 2008.) COMEDY: Get ready to hee yourself silly.
misc SFist Tonight *COMEDY: That wacky/sexy comedy troupe, SPF7, puts on a show at The Dark Room tonight. According to Justin Lamb, "there will be a politically incorrect ad campaign for fruit, a massage, He-Man
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight *MUSIC: You know that song at the end of , "Anyone Else But You"? The one Ellen Page and Michael Cera sing to one another? And it's all cute and sad? Well,it was
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight *FILM: The final release of Ridley Scott''s love-it-or-hate-it science fiction noir thriller — now with added footage, re-mixed sound, and minor improvements on visual effects! — screens at the Castro. COMEDY: SF Supervisor Tom Ammiano
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: San Francisco's favorite crooner, Utah-born singer/songwriter Spencer Day, performs tonight at the one of the city's newest music venues, the Rrazz Room located at Hotel Nikko. COMEDY: Let hilarity wash over
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LIVE MUSIC: Parenthetically named '80s pop outfit Was (Not Was) is known for the song, "Walk the Dinosaur" And that ditty? Went a little something like this: "Open the door, get on the
